David Dayen of Politico Magazine asks: “Can Anybody Save California?” The thrust of his article is an attempt to shift blame from politicians (especially President Barack Obama) to climate change. (Dayen makes little note of the federal government’s role, and
Secretary of State John Kerry told Indonesians on Sunday that global warming is now “perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.” “Think about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. It doesn’t keep us safe if the United
EuroNews: US Secretary of State John Kerry has been in Indonesia talking about climate change. He spoke to students at the American Cultural Centre in Jakarta:
President Barack Obama offered the desperate farmers and farmworkers of the drought-stricken Central Valley a desultory relief package last week: $1 billion for a “climate resilience fund,” plus “summer meals” and various other kinds of aid. For a president who
Secretary of State John Kerry, traveling through Asia to promote the Obama Administration’s push for an agenda to highlight climate change, will begin his selling in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sunday. A State Department official acknowledged that this speech is only
The US and China, the world’s two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, Saturday announced they were joining forces to share more information on trying to combat climate change. In a joint statement announced as US Secretary of State John Kerry
From The Hill: Republicans will lose the White House in 2016 if they nominate a candidate who is a “climate denier,” predicts one Senate Democrat. Speaking on a call set up by Organizing for Action, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) laid
No, not there. Rather, a better use for the $1 billion that President Barack Obama pledged today to a “climate resilience fund” would be to invest in a desalination plant that could help alleviate some of California’s periodic water shortages.
On Friday, President Barack Obama is expected to announce his intention to create a “Climate Resilience Fund” that will cost taxpayers $1 billion. “Weather practically everywhere is being caused by climate change,” said Assistant to the President for Science and
As predicted, President Barack Obama is making climate change the central focus of his visit with farmers today in the drought-stricken Central Valley of California. Rather than address the central grievance farmers have with the federal government, which is that
As the Washington D.C. area recovers from Winter Storm Pax, here’s a rather interesting statement from Alaskan Senator Mark Begich (D-Alaska) about climate change’s effect on his state. The Senate hearing about mitigating extreme weather was held yesterday, right before
Olympians are using the warm temperatures in Sochi, which usually has balmy temperatures during the winter due to its southern location, to call for action on climate change from global leaders. They are politicizing the Olympics to ask world leaders
A moment ago I reported on Twitter that British Members of Parliament had voted through a House of Lords amendment enabling the UK Health Secretary to ban smoking in cars, where children are in the vehicle. BREAKING: Smoking in cars
President Obama spoke at his sixth National Prayer Breakfast this morning, highlighting the diversity of the community of the faithful and his discussions with many faith leaders, including on issues such as climate change. The breakfast, he told attendees, was
(Reuters) – Flower power may have meant the difference between life and death for some of the extinct giants of the Ice Age, including the mighty woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros. Scientists who studied DNA preserved in Arctic permafrost sediments
Copious amounts of snow and ice continue to smother NYC and much of the Northeast as another blizzard assaulted the besieged region. Up to a foot of snow is expected to land, prompting New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to declare
Robert Redford couldn’t influence enough Oscar voters to snare a Best Actor nomination for his performance in All is Lost. Now, the liberal actor/activist hopes he can convince the country–and the Obama administration–that the Keystone XL oil pipeline is a
More scientific evidence emerging that #BPA is linked to obesity, heart disease and hormone changes in young people. http://t.co/wCEWaw9TSZ — Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) February 3, 2014 Junk science claims aren’t just limited to global warming (or as they call
(CNSNews.com) – Just as computer technology greatly expanded Americans’ wealth in the 1990s, the clean energy market could do the same thing in the years ahead, Secretary of State John Kerry told the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday.
The Associated Press reports that Punxsatawney Phil has seen his shadow, meaning six more weeks of brutally cold winter for the eastern half of the country, and crippling drought in the west. Also, he picked the Broncos over the Seahawks,
Now that Michael Bloomberg is out of a job as the mayor of New York City, the UN has offered him a new job. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed the former Big Apple mayor as his special envoy for
It is common to hear Democrats blame California’s ongoing severe drought on climate change. Gov. Jerry Brown made that claim last week in his “state of the state” address. Now a Republican is also claiming that California’s drought is man-made–by
Bette Midler is not a meteorologist, not does she play one on the small or big screen. She still uses social media to promote global warming, or rather climate change, whenever she can. The trigger is generally an extreme weather
The White House conceded that 2013 was a year of defeats that have left President Barack Obama damaged and lessened his credibility with the American public. According to the Washington Post, “an internal White House assessment concludes” that Obama was
An Italian adventurer will be packing his bags and moving to an iceberg in Greenland so he can reverse global warming. He plans on living there for eight to twelve months, which is the length of time he expects that
